Books on Ghandi and Malcolm X Stir Passions

NEW YORK - Two new  books on international civil rights & religious icons have come out in the past week. The first, on Mahatma Gandhi who is still so revered in India that the book about him has been banned in one of India's state and may yet be banned nationwide. The problem, say those who have fanned the flames of popular outrage this week, is that Joseph Lelyveld's new book on him, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India" (March 31) suggests that the father of modern India was bisexual. In the USA, similar flames of popular outrage will erupt in the coming week over Manning Marable's new book, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” (April 1) suggesting the same bisexual complexity. [Source: NYT]